Pamela Geller Organizing Anti-Mosque Rally on 9/11
Maggie Haberman reports that Pamela Geller--the blogger who is largely responsible for inciting the Cordoba Institute controversy--has planned a rally against the proposed mosque to take place on September 11th:
So I was a bit surprised to see a rally being hosted by, among others, Pamela Geller, the conservative blogger who basically drove the mosque story off an initial New York Times story last December before the tabloids weighed in, on Sept. 11 this year, near the proposed mosque site.
The alert says that this is the list of confirmed speakers; 9/11 family members; former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; Dutch Parliamentarian and freedom fighter Geert Wilders; Gary Berntsen, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York; Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, which has filed suit to stop the so-called ground zero mosque; Ginny Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife; Michael Grimm, a candidate for Congress from New York's 13th district and a Sept. 11 first responder; and blogger Andrew Breitbart.
I know that some opponents of the mosque may argue that this isn't a political rally because it's about this topic, but that's going to be a tough sell when Gingrich is listed as a speaker at the event.
UPDATE: Ben Smith has a Gingrich spokesman saying the former House speaker won't attend.
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